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Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, and his distant cousin Jon Huntsman, former Utah Governor and Ambassador to China, have been going at each other for nearly two decades. Nixing Romney for Secretary of State and appointing Huntsman ambassador to Russia, a likely heir to Foggy Bottom should the already embattled Rex Tillerson depart, are subtle if highly inflammable maneuvers that would make Nicolo Machiavelli smile.

From a less troubled era comes story based on suppressed facts and concerns over transgender identity conflicts that led to the just-in-time invention of a compelling backstory that everyone aided, abetted and attested to, everyone that is except it's creator. Pay attention Donald Trump, Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway.